05-25-2017, 04:27 PM
mattkime wrote: USB 3.1 specification takes over existing USB 3.0's SuperSpeed USB transfer rate, now calling it USB 3.1 Gen 1, and introduces a faster transfer rate called SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps, also called USB 3.1 Gen 2,[54] putting it on par with a single first-generation Thunderbolt channel.
So they basically introduced USB 3.1, gave it the same functionality as 3.0 and then, in a stroke of genius, USED THE SAME GODDAMN NAME FOR A FASTER VERSION - USB 3.1...wait for it... Gen 2.
Yeah, it's confusing and silly.
Your quote comes from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#USB_3.1
More here:
http://www.usb.org/developers/ssusb
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/03/ex...a-macbook/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-usb...3-1-gen-1/